diff --git a/stdlib/3/shlex.pyi b/stdlib/3/shlex.pyi
index 16263dcb4..db99fc668 100644
--- a/stdlib/3/shlex.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/3/shlex.pyi
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class shlex:
     escape = ...  # type: str
     quotes = ...  # type: str
     escapedquotes = ...  # type: str
-    whitespace_split = ...  # type: str
+    whitespace_split = ...  # type: bool
     infile = ...  # type: str
     instream = ...  # type: TextIO
     source = ...  # type: str