diff --git a/stats/src/components/vocabulary/FrequencyRankTable.test.tsx b/stats/src/components/vocabulary/FrequencyRankTable.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..50f0d113
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stats/src/components/vocabulary/FrequencyRankTable.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import test from 'node:test';
+import { renderToStaticMarkup } from 'react-dom/server';
+import { FrequencyRankTable } from './FrequencyRankTable';
+import type { VocabularyEntry } from '../../types/stats';
+
+function makeEntry(over: Partial<VocabularyEntry>): VocabularyEntry {
+  return {
+    wordId: 1,
+    headword: '日本語',
+    word: '日本語',
+    reading: 'にほんご',
+    frequency: 5,
+    frequencyRank: 100,
+    animeCount: 1,
+    partOfSpeech: null,
+    firstSeen: 0,
+    lastSeen: 0,
+    ...over,
+  } as VocabularyEntry;
+}
+
+test('renders headword and reading inline in a single column (no separate Reading header)', () => {
+  const entry = makeEntry({});
+  const markup = renderToStaticMarkup(
+    <FrequencyRankTable words={[entry]} knownWords={new Set()} />,
+  );
+  assert.ok(!markup.includes('>Reading<'), 'should not have a Reading column header');
+  assert.ok(markup.includes('日本語'), 'should include the headword');
+  assert.ok(markup.includes('にほんご'), 'should include the reading inline');
+});
+
+test('omits reading when reading equals headword', () => {
+  const entry = makeEntry({ headword: 'カレー', word: 'カレー', reading: 'カレー' });
+  const markup = renderToStaticMarkup(
+    <FrequencyRankTable words={[entry]} knownWords={new Set()} />,
+  );
+  assert.ok(markup.includes('カレー'), 'should include the headword');
+  assert.ok(!markup.includes('【カレー】'), 'should not render reading in brackets when equal to headword');
+});
diff --git a/stats/src/components/vocabulary/FrequencyRankTable.tsx b/stats/src/components/vocabulary/FrequencyRankTable.tsx
index a7fec63c..c6488908 100644
--- a/stats/src/components/vocabulary/FrequencyRankTable.tsx
+++ b/stats/src/components/vocabulary/FrequencyRankTable.tsx
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ export function FrequencyRankTable({ words, knownWords, onSelectWord }: Frequenc
                 <tr className="text-xs text-ctp-overlay2 border-b border-ctp-surface1">
                   <th className="text-left py-2 pr-3 font-medium w-16">Rank</th>
                   <th className="text-left py-2 pr-3 font-medium">Word</th>
-                  <th className="text-left py-2 pr-3 font-medium">Reading</th>
                   <th className="text-left py-2 pr-3 font-medium w-20">POS</th>
                   <th className="text-right py-2 font-medium w-20">Seen</th>
                 </tr>
@@ -128,9 +127,17 @@ export function FrequencyRankTable({ words, knownWords, onSelectWord }: Frequenc
                     <td className="py-1.5 pr-3 font-mono tabular-nums text-ctp-peach text-xs">
                       #{w.frequencyRank!.toLocaleString()}
                     </td>
-                    <td className="py-1.5 pr-3 text-ctp-text font-medium">{w.headword}</td>
-                    <td className="py-1.5 pr-3 text-ctp-subtext0">
-                      {fullReading(w.headword, w.reading) || w.headword}
+                    <td className="py-1.5 pr-3">
+                      <span className="text-ctp-text font-medium">{w.headword}</span>
+                      {(() => {
+                        const reading = fullReading(w.headword, w.reading);
+                        if (!reading || reading === w.headword) return null;
+                        return (
+                          <span className="text-ctp-subtext0 text-xs ml-1.5">
+                            【{reading}】
+                          </span>
+                        );
+                      })()}
                     </td>
                     <td className="py-1.5 pr-3">
                       {w.partOfSpeech && <PosBadge pos={w.partOfSpeech} />}