diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-08-02-24-55.gh-issue-121439.jDHod3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-08-02-24-55.gh-issue-121439.jDHod3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..361f9fc7118
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-08-02-24-55.gh-issue-121439.jDHod3.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow tuples of length 20 in the freelist to be reused.
diff --git a/Objects/tupleobject.c b/Objects/tupleobject.c
index 994258f20b4..3704d095a97 100644
--- a/Objects/tupleobject.c
+++ b/Objects/tupleobject.c
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ maybe_freelist_pop(Py_ssize_t size)
         return NULL;
     }
     assert(size > 0);
-    if (size < PyTuple_MAXSAVESIZE) {
+    if (size <= PyTuple_MAXSAVESIZE) {
         Py_ssize_t index = size - 1;
         PyTupleObject *op = TUPLE_FREELIST.items[index];
         if (op != NULL) {