Karaoke is usually pronounced \’care-E-O-key\’ . The word karaoke came from two Japanese words \”kara\” comes from \”karappo\” meaning empty, and \”oke\” is the abbreviation of \”okesutura,\” or orchestra. So, karaoke is derived from these two Japanese words and means \”empty orchestra.\” Karaoke is commonly misspelled as \’kareoke\’, \’karioke\’, and \’karoke\’,

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