diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 51781d4953935..9626d08352146 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ module = [
     "pytorch_lightning.core.saving",
     "pytorch_lightning.demos.boring_classes",
     "pytorch_lightning.demos.mnist_datamodule",
-    "pytorch_lightning.distributed.dist",
     "pytorch_lightning.loggers.base",
     "pytorch_lightning.loggers.logger",
     "pytorch_lightning.loggers.comet",