diff --git a/stdlib/json/__init__.pyi b/stdlib/json/__init__.pyi
index 2342b29cb0c8..3542ced5ea33 100644
--- a/stdlib/json/__init__.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/json/__init__.pyi
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import sys
 from _typeshed import SupportsRead, SupportsWrite
 from collections.abc import Callable
 from typing import Any, Literal
+from typing_extensions import LiteralString
 
 from .decoder import JSONDecodeError as JSONDecodeError, JSONDecoder as JSONDecoder
 from .encoder import JSONEncoder as JSONEncoder
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ def dumps(
     check_circular: bool = True,
     allow_nan: bool = True,
     cls: type[JSONEncoder] | None = None,
-    indent: None | int | str = None,
+    indent: None | int | LiteralString = None,
     separators: tuple[str, str] | None = None,
     default: Callable[[Any], Any] | None = None,
     sort_keys: bool = False,
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ def dump(
     check_circular: bool = True,
     allow_nan: bool = True,
     cls: type[JSONEncoder] | None = None,
-    indent: None | int | str = None,
+    indent: None | int | LiteralString = None,
     separators: tuple[str, str] | None = None,
     default: Callable[[Any], Any] | None = None,
     sort_keys: bool = False,