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:
$$\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \bbox[yellow]{\textbf{Re-Tileable Words™}}&\bbox[yellow]{\textbf{Un-Re-Tileable Words™}}\\ \hline \text{KALE}&\text{CHARD}\\ \hline \text{ROOSTER}&\text{COCKEREL}\\ \hline \text{KARMA}&\text{FORTUNE}\\ \hline \text{SALMON}&\text{MACKEREL}\\ \hline \text{TEST}&\text{QUIZ}\\ \hline \text{DREAM}&\text{NIGHTMARE}\\ \hline \text{FAST}&\text{QUICK}\\ \hline \text{CRAFT}&\text{ORIGAMI}\\ \hline \text{VIEW}&\text{SCENERY}\\ \hline \text{ORGAN}&\text{GLAND}\\ \hline \text{SCORE}&\text{MARKS}\\ \hline \text{EROTIC}&\text{SEXUAL}\\ \hline \end{array} $$
For those without MathJax, or if you want to pop this into a spreadsheet, 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
Answer
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.
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