diff --git a/Doc/c-api/module.rst b/Doc/c-api/module.rst
index 4f9f4ac6f41bfe..7601f5ee9f5228 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/module.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/module.rst
@@ -263,6 +263,12 @@ or request "multi-phase initialization" by returning the definition struct itsel
       .. versionchanged:: 3.9
          No longer called before the module state is allocated.
 
+
+.. c:var:: PyTypeObject PyModuleDef_Type
+
+   The type of ``PyModuleDef`` objects.
+
+
 Single-phase initialization
 ...........................
 
diff --git a/Tools/check-c-api-docs/ignored_c_api.txt b/Tools/check-c-api-docs/ignored_c_api.txt
index 7aefd6557eff7b..00dfbb964bb9c0 100644
--- a/Tools/check-c-api-docs/ignored_c_api.txt
+++ b/Tools/check-c-api-docs/ignored_c_api.txt
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ Py_UTF8Mode
 Py_HASH_EXTERNAL
 # modsupport.h
 PyABIInfo_FREETHREADING_AGNOSTIC
-# moduleobject.h
-PyModuleDef_Type
 # object.h
 Py_INVALID_SIZE
 Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG