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This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.

If a word has a certain property, I call it a Re-Tileable Word™.

You can use the examples below to find the property:

Re-tileable Word™ Non-re-tileable Word™
KALE CHARD
ROOSTER COCKEREL
KARMA FORTUNE
SALMON MACKEREL
TEST QUIZ
DREAM NIGHTMARE
FAST QUICK
CRAFT ORIGAMI
VIEW SCENERY
ORGAN GLAND
SCORE MARKS
EROTIC SEXUAL

Here is a CSV version:

Re-tileable Word™, Non-re-tileable Word™

KALE, CHARD

ROOSTER, COCKEREL

KARMA, FORTUNE

SALMON, MACKEREL

TEST, QUIZ

DREAM, NIGHTMARE

FAST, QUICK

CRAFT, ORIGAMI

VIEW, SCENERY

ORGAN, GLAND

SCORE, MARKS

EROTIC, SEXUAL
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A Re-Tileable Word™ seems to be ...

... an allowable Scrable word that can be anagrammed to one or more other allowable Scrabble words. Some anagrams are obscure e.g. makar, monals, tercio, but they are all in the Scrabble dictionary. The Un-Re-Tileable words have no useful anagrams.

These words are Re-Tileable™, because ...

... to make an anagram of a word on a Scrabble board just means to rearrange the tiles.

M Oehm
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    I was thinking along the same lines, except that I used this random http://wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html anagram solver which did not give anything useful for KARMA. Then I dropped the idea. – Matsmath Sep 20 '16 at 07:37
  • @Matsmath: I've used the Word Wizard from the Chambers website. It can find only single words and some fixed expressions, but it tells you whether a word is a valid Scrabble word. (And it can find words that aren't even in Chambers.) – M Oehm Sep 20 '16 at 07:50