Our Favorite Funny Plates in the Collection

Vanity plates are, at their core, a tiny comedy format. You have 6 to 8 characters and maybe a state graphic to make someone laugh, groan, or do a double take at 65 mph. Some people absolutely nail it.

Here are some of our favorites from the funny category in the collection, and what makes each one work.

The Classics

HESCORZ is a perfect example of the form. It's phonetic, it's immediate, and it tells you exactly who is driving. Whether it's a hockey parent, a self-proclaimed scorer, or someone with a very specific sense of humor, that plate does a lot of work in seven characters.

AAHSOME plays the vanity plate game at its own level. Instead of spelling out a word, it is a vanity plate. A plate that describes itself as awesome by being slightly, deliberately wrong. Meta and perfect.

Feelings on Wheels

Some plates are basically a mood. GRUMPAH just commits to it. No explanation, no apology. Just grumpy, and apparently fine with announcing it to every car behind them. We respect it.

MUMZMAD is funnier the more you think about it. Is mom mad because of the car? Because of the driver? Because of something that happened this morning? The ambiguity is the joke.

THNXHON (Thanks Hon!) is the wholesome counterpoint. Someone out there got their dream car as a gift and immediately made sure everyone on the road knew it.

The Self-Referential Hall of Fame

The best plates are the ones that know what they are.

TEEEHEE is a plate that is just laughing at itself. Three E's because two was not enough. You can hear the giggle.

AAHSOME already made this list, but it deserves a second mention here. It is a vanity plate about being a vanity plate. The ouroboros of personalized DMV paperwork.

High Fashion, High Miles

HIHEELS is a great example of a plate that tells you everything about the driver in two words. Confident, fashionable, and apparently fine with the whole world knowing it. We love the commitment.

Patriotism and Personality

MURHICA is phonetically "America" with maximum enthusiasm. It would fit on a lifted truck, a sports car, or honestly any vehicle. Loud, proud, and genuinely hard to not smile at.

The Misspell as Art Form

BUBBARU is a deliberate misspelling of Subaru on what is presumably a Subaru. It is the kind of joke that takes a second to land and then lands hard.

TROUBLE is one of the rare plates that uses a full, actual English word, and it is the right word. Whoever drives this car knows exactly what they are.

Why Funny Plates Work

The constraint is the point. You cannot ramble. Every character costs money and has to justify its place. The plates that land are the ones where the wordplay clicks instantly, where the message fits the medium perfectly. Six characters to make a stranger laugh in traffic is genuinely hard to pull off. The ones that do it are little works of art.

Find More

Browse the full funny collection, or check out clever plates for a different flavor of wordplay. Think you spotted something that belongs here? Submit it and it could end up as our plate of the week!