diff --git a/stubs/Markdown/markdown/core.pyi b/stubs/Markdown/markdown/core.pyi
index 7c5e77f586e8..e1f85a0f244a 100644
--- a/stubs/Markdown/markdown/core.pyi
+++ b/stubs/Markdown/markdown/core.pyi
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class _ReadableStream(Protocol):
 
 class Markdown:
     preprocessors: Registry[preprocessors.Preprocessor]
-    inlinePatterns: Registry[inlinepatterns.Pattern]
+    inlinePatterns: Registry[inlinepatterns.InlineProcessor | inlinepatterns.Pattern]
     treeprocessors: Registry[treeprocessors.Treeprocessor]
     postprocessors: Registry[postprocessors.Postprocessor]
     parser: blockparser.BlockParser
diff --git a/stubs/Markdown/markdown/extensions/smarty.pyi b/stubs/Markdown/markdown/extensions/smarty.pyi
index dcf57107c141..b6f86d871d88 100644
--- a/stubs/Markdown/markdown/extensions/smarty.pyi
+++ b/stubs/Markdown/markdown/extensions/smarty.pyi
@@ -38,6 +38,6 @@ class SmartyExtension(Extension):
     def educateEllipses(self, md: Markdown) -> None: ...
     def educateAngledQuotes(self, md: Markdown) -> None: ...
     def educateQuotes(self, md: Markdown) -> None: ...
-    inlinePatterns: util.Registry[inlinepatterns.Pattern]
+    inlinePatterns: util.Registry[inlinepatterns.InlineProcessor | inlinepatterns.Pattern]
 
 def makeExtension(**kwargs) -> SmartyExtension: ...
diff --git a/stubs/Markdown/markdown/inlinepatterns.pyi b/stubs/Markdown/markdown/inlinepatterns.pyi
index 00ee4b4f0516..61b703082890 100644
--- a/stubs/Markdown/markdown/inlinepatterns.pyi
+++ b/stubs/Markdown/markdown/inlinepatterns.pyi
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
 from markdown import util
 from markdown.core import Markdown
 
-def build_inlinepatterns(md: Markdown, **kwargs) -> util.Registry[Pattern]: ...
+def build_inlinepatterns(md: Markdown, **kwargs) -> util.Registry[InlineProcessor | Pattern]: ...
 
 NOIMG: str
 BACKTICK_RE: str
@@ -39,21 +39,23 @@ class EmStrongItem(NamedTuple):
     builder: str
     tags: str
 
-class Pattern:
+class _BasePattern:
     ANCESTOR_EXCLUDES: ClassVar[Collection[str]]
     pattern: str
     compiled_re: re.Pattern[str]
     md: Markdown
     def __init__(self, pattern: str, md: Markdown | None = None) -> None: ...
     def getCompiledRegExp(self) -> re.Pattern[str]: ...
-    def handleMatch(self, m: re.Match[str]) -> str | Element | None: ...
     def type(self) -> str: ...
     def unescape(self, text: str) -> str: ...
 
-class InlineProcessor(Pattern):
+class Pattern(_BasePattern):
+    def handleMatch(self, m: re.Match[str]) -> str | Element | None: ...
+
+class InlineProcessor(_BasePattern):
     safe_mode: bool
     def __init__(self, pattern: str, md: Markdown | None = None) -> None: ...
-    def handleMatch(self, m: re.Match[str], data: str) -> tuple[Element | str | None, int | None, int | None]: ...  # type: ignore[override]
+    def handleMatch(self, m: re.Match[str], data: str) -> tuple[Element | str | None, int | None, int | None]: ...
 
 class SimpleTextPattern(Pattern): ...
 class SimpleTextInlineProcessor(InlineProcessor): ...