diff --git a/stubs/chardet/chardet/__init__.pyi b/stubs/chardet/chardet/__init__.pyi
index 7f9dd122c..f9537b616 100644
--- a/stubs/chardet/chardet/__init__.pyi
+++ b/stubs/chardet/chardet/__init__.pyi
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import sys
 
 from .universaldetector import UniversalDetector as UniversalDetector, _FinalResultType, _IntermediateResultType
+from .version import VERSION as VERSION, __version__ as __version__
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
     from typing import TypedDict
@@ -22,7 +23,5 @@ class _SMModelType(TypedDict):
     char_len_table: tuple[int, ...]
     name: str
 
-VERSION: list[str]
-
 def detect(byte_str: bytes | bytearray) -> _FinalResultType: ...
 def detect_all(byte_str: bytes | bytearray, ignore_threshold: bool = ...) -> list[_IntermediateResultType]: ...