diff --git a/compiler/semmagic.nim b/compiler/semmagic.nim
index 0ad6117813..6cf3be014a 100644
--- a/compiler/semmagic.nim
+++ b/compiler/semmagic.nim
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ proc evalTypeTrait(c: PContext; traitCall: PNode, operand: PType, context: PSym)
     let cond = operand.kind == tyTuple and operand.n != nil
     result = newIntNodeT(toInt128(ord(cond)), traitCall, c.idgen, c.graph)
   of "tupleLen":
-    var operand = operand.skipTypes({tyGenericInst})
+    var operand = operand.skipTypes({tyGenericInst, tyAlias})
     assert operand.kind == tyTuple, $operand.kind
     result = newIntNodeT(toInt128(operand.len), traitCall, c.idgen, c.graph)
   of "distinctBase":
diff --git a/tests/metatype/ttypetraits.nim b/tests/metatype/ttypetraits.nim
index 74ace75c3a..0107f6b049 100644
--- a/tests/metatype/ttypetraits.nim
+++ b/tests/metatype/ttypetraits.nim
@@ -194,6 +194,11 @@ block: # tupleLen
     MyGenericTuple2Alias2 =   MyGenericTuple2Alias[float]
   static: doAssert MyGenericTuple2Alias2.tupleLen == 3
 
+  type
+    MyGenericTuple3[T] = T
+    MyGenericTuple3Alias = MyGenericTuple3[(string, int)]
+  static: doAssert MyGenericTuple3Alias.tupleLen == 2
+
   static: doAssert (int, float).tupleLen == 2
   static: doAssert (1, ).tupleLen == 1
   static: doAssert ().tupleLen == 0