diff --git a/stdlib/2/itertools.pyi b/stdlib/2/itertools.pyi
index 9d53e8903..3ba389fbb 100644
--- a/stdlib/2/itertools.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2/itertools.pyi
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ _T2 = TypeVar('_T2')
 _T3 = TypeVar('_T3')
 _T4 = TypeVar('_T4')
 _T5 = TypeVar('_T5')
+_T6 = TypeVar('_T6')
 
 @overload
 def imap(func: Callable[[_T1], _S], iter1: Iterable[_T1]) -> Iterator[_S]: ...
@@ -74,10 +75,18 @@ def izip(iter1: Iterable[_T1], iter2: Iterable[_T2], iter3: Iterable[_T3],
          iter4: Iterable[_T4]) -> Iterator[Tuple[_T1, _T2,
                                            _T3, _T4]]: ...
 @overload
-def izip(iter1: Iterable[_T1], iter2: Iterable[_T2], iter3: Iterable[_T3],
-         iter4: Iterable[_T4], iter5: Iterable[_T5]) -> Iterator[Tuple[_T1, _T2,
-                                                                 _T3, _T4, _T5]]: ...
-# TODO more than five iterables
+def izip(iter1: Iterable[_T1], iter2: Iterable[_T2],
+         iter3: Iterable[_T3], iter4: Iterable[_T4],
+         iter5: Iterable[_T5]) -> Iterator[Tuple[_T1, _T2,
+                                                 _T3, _T4, _T5]]: ...
+@overload
+def izip(iter1: Iterable[_T1], iter2: Iterable[_T2],
+         iter3: Iterable[_T3], iter4: Iterable[_T4],
+         iter5: Iterable[_T5], iter6: Iterable[_T6]) -> Iterator[Tuple[_T1, _T2, _T3,
+                                                                 _T4, _T5, _T6]]: ...
+@overload
+def izip(*iter: Iterable) -> Iterator[tuple]
+# TODO izip loses type information for 6 arguments and more
 
 def izip_longest(*p: Iterable[Any],
                  fillvalue: Any = ...) -> Iterator[Any]: ...