diff --git a/python/helpers/python-skeletons/builtins.py b/python/helpers/python-skeletons/builtins.py
index 627885385b70..edaccdeaec4c 100644
--- a/python/helpers/python-skeletons/builtins.py
+++ b/python/helpers/python-skeletons/builtins.py
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ def open(name, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None,
 def ord(c):
     """Return the integer ordinal of a one-character string.
 
-    :type c: str
+    :type c: bytes | str
     :rtype: int
     """
     return 0
diff --git a/python/testData/inspections/PyTypeCheckerInspection/Ord.py b/python/testData/inspections/PyTypeCheckerInspection/Ord.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b24b68d2e02f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/testData/inspections/PyTypeCheckerInspection/Ord.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ord(b'A')
+ord('A')
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/testSrc/com/jetbrains/python/inspections/Py3TypeCheckerInspectionTest.java b/python/testSrc/com/jetbrains/python/inspections/Py3TypeCheckerInspectionTest.java
index 9a0bebdd90e9..6a445ea842f0 100644
--- a/python/testSrc/com/jetbrains/python/inspections/Py3TypeCheckerInspectionTest.java
+++ b/python/testSrc/com/jetbrains/python/inspections/Py3TypeCheckerInspectionTest.java
@@ -108,4 +108,9 @@ public class Py3TypeCheckerInspectionTest extends PyTestCase {
   public void testListGetItemWithSlice() {
     doTest();
   }
+
+  // PY-19796
+  public void testOrd() {
+    doTest();
+  }
 }