diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/basic_booleans_backward_compat.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/basic_booleans_backward_compat.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1bfb94dad81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/basic_booleans_backward_compat.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+- Restore module_utils.basic.BOOLEANS variable for backwards compatibility with the module API in older ansible releases.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
index a7cf24ab70f..da7e9762b91 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six import (
 )
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import map, reduce, shlex_quote
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_bytes, to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import BOOLEANS_FALSE, BOOLEANS_TRUE, boolean
+from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import BOOLEANS, BOOLEANS_FALSE, BOOLEANS_TRUE, boolean
 
 
 PASSWORD_MATCH = re.compile(r'^(?:.+[-_\s])?pass(?:[-_\s]?(?:word|phrase|wrd|wd)?)(?:[-_\s].+)?$', re.I)