diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8d01ec2a25d4..db7f53290797 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 - `[pretty-format]`: Migrate to TypeScript ([#7809](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7809))
 - `[diff-sequences]`: Migrate to Typescript ([#7820](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7820))
 - `[jest-get-type]`: Migrate to TypeScript ([#7818](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7818))
+- `[jest-regex-util]`: Migrate to TypeScript ([#7822](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7822))
 
 ### Performance
 
diff --git a/packages/jest-regex-util/package.json b/packages/jest-regex-util/package.json
index 56618fc89c5a..446f7ec5fbab 100644
--- a/packages/jest-regex-util/package.json
+++ b/packages/jest-regex-util/package.json
@@ -11,5 +11,6 @@
   },
   "license": "MIT",
   "main": "build/index.js",
+  "types": "build/index.d.ts",
   "gitHead": "634e5a54f46b2a62d1dc81a170562e6f4e55ad60"
 }
diff --git a/packages/jest-regex-util/src/__tests__/index.test.js b/packages/jest-regex-util/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
similarity index 90%
rename from packages/jest-regex-util/src/__tests__/index.test.js
rename to packages/jest-regex-util/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
index 4efcbf465df9..828d6601c194 100644
--- a/packages/jest-regex-util/src/__tests__/index.test.js
+++ b/packages/jest-regex-util/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
@@ -2,21 +2,21 @@
 
 jest.mock('path');
 
-import {replacePathSepForRegex} from '../index';
 import path from 'path';
+import {replacePathSepForRegex} from '../index';
 
 describe('replacePathSepForRegex()', () => {
   describe('posix', () => {
-    beforeEach(() => (path.sep = '/'));
+    beforeEach(() => ((path as any).sep = '/'));
 
     it('should return the path', () => {
       const expected = {};
-      expect(replacePathSepForRegex(expected)).toBe(expected);
+      expect(replacePathSepForRegex(expected as any)).toBe(expected);
     });
   });
 
   describe('win32', () => {
-    beforeEach(() => (path.sep = '\\'));
+    beforeEach(() => ((path as any).sep = '\\'));
 
     it('should replace POSIX path separators', () => {
       expect(replacePathSepForRegex('a/b/c')).toBe('a\\\\b\\\\c');
diff --git a/packages/jest-regex-util/src/index.js b/packages/jest-regex-util/src/index.ts
similarity index 91%
rename from packages/jest-regex-util/src/index.js
rename to packages/jest-regex-util/src/index.ts
index 2564df4eae41..a33228598959 100644
--- a/packages/jest-regex-util/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/jest-regex-util/src/index.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
  * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  *
- * @flow
  */
 
 import path from 'path';
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ export const replacePathSepForRegex = (string: string) => {
   if (path.sep === '\\') {
     return string.replace(
       /(\/|(.)?\\(?![[\]{}()*+?.^$|\\]))/g,
-      (_match, p1, p2) => (p2 && p2 !== '\\' ? p2 + '\\\\' : '\\\\'),
+      (_match, _, p2) => (p2 && p2 !== '\\' ? p2 + '\\\\' : '\\\\'),
     );
   }
   return string;
diff --git a/packages/jest-regex-util/tsconfig.json b/packages/jest-regex-util/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7bb06bce6d20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/jest-regex-util/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "rootDir": "src",
+    "outDir": "build"
+  }
+}