In most use cases, there would be no ambiguity. The context will generally rule out the strictly correct option if you talk about prices or actual quantities : > Cette maison coûte un million deux. Cannot mean but €1.2M in France, same with : > Il y a trois million huit habitants dans cette ville (= 3.8M inhabitants). *Un million un* sounds a little odd, *un million cent* is more common to mean 1.1M. Same for *Un million dix* to *Un million quatre-vingt-dix neuf*, they might be too rarely used, if ever, to deserve being mentioned. When you really want to tell 1 000 001, you certainly can use *un million et un* but with something to qualify last "one": > Un million et un habitant. > Un million et deux Euros. > Un million et quatre unités. One can also say the unambiguous : > Pile (ou exactement) un million plus un habitant.