diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 879097622..4378f4c0d 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ Pavel Karateev
 Paweł Adamczak
 Pedro Algarvio
 Petter Strandmark
+Philipp A.
 Philipp Loose
 Pierre Sassoulas
 Pieter Mulder
diff --git a/changelog/11931.bugfix.rst b/changelog/11931.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5d71eee82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/11931.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix some instances of importing doctests’ parent modules when using `--import-mode=importlib`.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 15a855ce6..560d63203 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ ignore = [
 [tool.ruff.format]
 docstring-code-format = true
 
+[tool.ruff.lint]
+allowed-confusables = ["’", "×"]
+
 [tool.ruff.lint.pycodestyle]
 # In order to be able to format for 88 char in ruff format
 max-line-length = 120
diff --git a/src/_pytest/pathlib.py b/src/_pytest/pathlib.py
index 351223f76..928a3d0db 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/pathlib.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/pathlib.py
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ def module_name_from_path(path: Path, root: Path) -> str:
         _module_name_from_path(path, dir)
         for dir in itertools.chain([root], map(Path, sys.path))
     )
-    return ".".join(min(candidates, key=len))
+    return ".".join(min(candidates, key=len))  # type: ignore[arg-type]
 
 
 def _module_name_from_path(path: Path, root: Path) -> tuple[str, ...]:
diff --git a/testing/test_pathlib.py b/testing/test_pathlib.py
index f22add229..4f8b5b07b 100644
--- a/testing/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/testing/test_pathlib.py
@@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ class TestImportLibMode:
             init = pkgdir / "__init__.py"
             init.write_text("", encoding="ascii")
 
+        # the PyTest root is `proj_dir`, but the package is imported from `pkgs_dir`
         mod = import_path(init, root=proj_dir, mode=ImportMode.importlib)
         # assert that it’s imported with the canonical name, not “path.to.package.<name>”
         mod_names = [n for n, m in sys.modules.items() if m is mod]