Abstract: Method and device for extracting a synchronizing signal from a digital signal. The synchronizing signal can be a single bit, a word or a subframe. A first circuit searches for the synchronizing signal in a fixed position in the received signal every time it should occur. If this circuit does not find the synchronizing signal when it should, a second circuit starts a search action for it in the received signal. When the first circuit has not found the synchronizing signal a fixed number of times, the loss of synchronism will be signalled to the equipment that follows. If in the mean time the second circuit has found the synchronizing signal a fixed number of times in the same position in the received signal, then the first circuit will be synchronized with the second circuit. This synchronism only occurs if the second circuit has found the synchronizing signal a greater number of consecutive times than the first circuit within the same period of time.