l-plate

1. 1.

   a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner

   Broaderplate

   United Kingdom

Questions about l-plate

What does l-plate mean?

l-plate means "a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner".

How many syllables are in l-plate?

l-plate has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is l-plate a common word?

l-plate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.