diff --git a/changelog/6566.bugfix.rst b/changelog/6566.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4af976f2268
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/6566.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix ``EncodedFile.writelines`` to call the underlying buffer's ``writelines`` method.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/capture.py b/src/_pytest/capture.py
index c79bfeef024..ccbeb0884e0 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/capture.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/capture.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 import sys
 from io import UnsupportedOperation
 from tempfile import TemporaryFile
+from typing import BinaryIO
+from typing import Iterable
 
 import pytest
 from _pytest.compat import CaptureIO
@@ -413,30 +415,27 @@ def safe_text_dupfile(f, mode, default_encoding="UTF8"):
 class EncodedFile:
     errors = "strict"  # possibly needed by py3 code (issue555)
 
-    def __init__(self, buffer, encoding):
+    def __init__(self, buffer: BinaryIO, encoding: str) -> None:
         self.buffer = buffer
         self.encoding = encoding
 
-    def write(self, obj):
-        if isinstance(obj, str):
-            obj = obj.encode(self.encoding, "replace")
-        else:
+    def write(self, s: str) -> int:
+        if not isinstance(s, str):
             raise TypeError(
-                "write() argument must be str, not {}".format(type(obj).__name__)
+                "write() argument must be str, not {}".format(type(s).__name__)
             )
-        return self.buffer.write(obj)
+        return self.buffer.write(s.encode(self.encoding, "replace"))
 
-    def writelines(self, linelist):
-        data = "".join(linelist)
-        self.write(data)
+    def writelines(self, lines: Iterable[str]) -> None:
+        self.buffer.writelines(x.encode(self.encoding, "replace") for x in lines)
 
     @property
-    def name(self):
+    def name(self) -> str:
         """Ensure that file.name is a string."""
         return repr(self.buffer)
 
     @property
-    def mode(self):
+    def mode(self) -> str:
         return self.buffer.mode.replace("b", "")
 
     def __getattr__(self, name):
diff --git a/testing/test_capture.py b/testing/test_capture.py
index 7d459e91c75..9261c8441ed 100644
--- a/testing/test_capture.py
+++ b/testing/test_capture.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 import textwrap
 from io import StringIO
 from io import UnsupportedOperation
+from typing import BinaryIO
+from typing import Generator
 from typing import List
 from typing import TextIO
 
@@ -831,7 +833,7 @@ def test_dontreadfrominput():
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def tmpfile(testdir):
+def tmpfile(testdir) -> Generator[BinaryIO, None, None]:
     f = testdir.makepyfile("").open("wb+")
     yield f
     if not f.closed:
@@ -1497,3 +1499,15 @@ def test_fails():
 def test_stderr_write_returns_len(capsys):
     """Write on Encoded files, namely captured stderr, should return number of characters written."""
     assert sys.stderr.write("Foo") == 3
+
+
+def test_encodedfile_writelines(tmpfile: BinaryIO) -> None:
+    ef = capture.EncodedFile(tmpfile, "utf-8")
+    with pytest.raises(AttributeError):
+        ef.writelines([b"line1", b"line2"])  # type: ignore[list-item]  # noqa: F821
+    assert ef.writelines(["line1", "line2"]) is None  # type: ignore[func-returns-value]  # noqa: F821
+    tmpfile.seek(0)
+    assert tmpfile.read() == b"line1line2"
+    tmpfile.close()
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        ef.read()