It doesn’t surpass it, but ue seems to at least be a modest little brother to ough. It can represent:

• \-yoo\: argue, cue, ensue
• \-oo\: glue, true, sue
• [silent]: tongue, morgue, vague, the Hague
• \-way\: segue, suede

(This is just looking at the cases where it really is functioning as a unit, omitting examples like truer and queer, where a phoneme straddles its boundary.)

[Inspired by the comments here.]

It doesn’t surpass it, but ue seems to at least be a modest little brother to ough. It can represent:

• \-yoo\: argue, cue, ensue
• \-oo\: glue, true, sue
• [silent]: tongue, morgue, vague, the Hague
• \-way\: segue, suede

(This is just looking at the cases where it really is functioning as a unit, omitting examples like truer and queer, where a phoneme straddles its boundary.)

[Inspired by the comments here.]

Following on from the comments here, -ue- seems to be a modest little brother to -ough. It can represent:

• \-yoo\: argue, cue, ensue
• \-oo\: glue, true, sue
• [silent]: tongue, morgue, vague, the Hague
• \-way\: segue, suede

(This is just looking at the cases where it really is functioning as a unit, omitting examples like truer and queer, where a phoneme straddles its boundary.)

[Inspired by the comments here.]

It doesn’t surpass it, but ue seems to at least be a modest little brother to ough. It can represent:

• \-yoo\: argue, cue, ensue
• \-oo\: glue, true, sue
• [silent]: tongue, morgue, vague, the Hague
• \-way\: segue, suede

(This is just looking at the cases where it really is functioning as a unit, omitting examples like truer and queer, where a phoneme straddles its boundary.)

[Inspired by the comments here.]