diff --git a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt
index 0a013847c..5e3cb6844 100644
--- a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt
+++ b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ encodings.utf_32_le
 encodings.utf_7
 encodings.uu_codec
 encodings.zlib_codec
-json.scanner
 sqlite3.dump
 turtledemo
 turtledemo\..+
diff --git a/stdlib/json/scanner.pyi b/stdlib/json/scanner.pyi
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f3b98996b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib/json/scanner.pyi
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from _json import make_scanner as make_scanner
+
+__all__ = ["make_scanner"]